Crescent Journeys

The ones you can depend on, FRIENDS!!!

2010-12-25T01:56:00.001-05:00

The ones you can depend on, FRIENDS!!! In life we search for acceptance from others. We look for others with whom we can relate with, or chill with, or even … “you know” with, ☺. A friend to me is person that you’re familiar with, and share a mutual bond of affection with, no homo. A worthy friend or homie is there when you need help or charity. Charity isn’t necessarily the act of giving money. Charity can also be given by lending your friend, your dawg, a shoulder to lean on, or by just simply listening to a particular problem that they’re going through at the time.
One thing you must understand, though, is your friends are human, which means that they’re not perfect JUST LIKE YOU. Remember, if man can betray a GOD, he can definitely do the same to YOU. So, You have to know what battle to put your soldiers in. What I mean by that is you have to know your friends strengths and weaknesses to the best of your abilities. Basically don’t put them in a position where you know they can fail. For example, I have a friend that almost every time we would compete for the affection of some chick, he would do something detrimental to our friendship to get the advantage, and I would sit back in maze from his action. But, I knew he was a good friend, and I was clocking way more girls then him anyways so I never let it bother me. I was out of town and I needed some paperwork from my father to get this Pell Grant for school, and the same friend left from his job to pick up the paperwork from my dad and had it fax to me within the same hour I asked him to do me the favor. When your homies mess up, remember good friends are hard to find. So, make sure you careful assess the problem before you do something stupid or off impulse, like whip their ~~@$&~~ or tell them “to the left, to the left”, no homo.
A friend must also know how to sacrifice. Sacrifice is a divine attribute that is that has been exemplified by mortars such as Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Gandhi, and Jesus by them given their lives that to demonstrated love and compassion for all mankind. Sacrifice is saying no to your friend’s fine girlfriend/ boyfriend, it’s sacrificing that Whopper to get two Double Cheeseburgers so your friend can eat too. Sacrifice shows loyalty, and without loyalty who can you trust when you’re really in a bind.
These are just a few of my thoughts on friendship. My original piece was seven pages long single space because of all the references I had in it, but I condensed it because I though it may have been too much, lol.

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Food for Thought

2009-01-21T23:59:00.000-05:00

Our thoughts direct our beliefs. Our beliefs affect our behavior, which in return affects our actions, and that effect directs our lives. We live in a thought basic society where perception seems to be everything. What we think is true is our reality most of the time without question. We accept lies so much more than the truth. A lie keeps us comfortable and content, but ignorant, and perversely it’s easier to believe. The truth is to liberate us, but it comes with a cost of knowledge, which is sometimes revolting and even unbearable. Our thoughts control us so much that we flee from the unknown, and we, the sheep, are force to follow the wolves disguised as shepherds on a pilgrimage of bogus tales and golden covered lies, which we know for a fact is true because our “shepherds” told us that it was.

If a mind is kept in a routine of comfort for an insufficiently absorbing amount of time it will become familiar with this state and will become inert willingly. Once the mind is abducted from this state the mind will begin to fight for comfort again. If this mind doesn’t find the initial comfort or any substitute, eventually it will begin to breakdown, and one will have to rebuild it over again. When we employ our mind it automatically calibrates it for when we employ our mind the next time. So, the next time we confront a certain situation our minds will be better equipped then the previous time. So, in essences, the more experiences, trials, failures, and etc. we face the more efficient our minds become. This is to be only if we face these situations in completion. If you don’t see a problem to the end you will have to battle with it in your cerebral facility perpetually. Hence the saying “A coward dies a thousand deaths, but the brave only once.”

If we want to become better our thinking has to improve, and in order to improve our thinking we must use atypical cerebral enhance vehicles to do so. We will be the same persons that we are now years into the future except for the different cerebral enhance vehicles such as the books we read, the people we meet, and the experiences we face. The thoughts we already acquired that got us to this point cannot take us much further than a few extra feet.

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My view: The Road Less Traveled

2009-01-08T18:23:00.000-05:00

Every end starts the beginning of something else. Just like we close one chapter to start another, or how we finish with our degrees to start our careers or build on our initial education. We are at the break of a new and different life. The struggles we battle with before to obtain the little or vast amount that we have or what we believed to be a mountain at the time has been overcame and can now be looked upon as a step towards the top, which we call success.

Success is the end of our book, which few had completed, but sadly most had not done so. To get to the end we must press on and climb the mountains of fear, doubt, weariness, and sometimes embarrassment. For each new beginning we go through we will come to face these mountains over and over again. No man or woman is exempt from life’s struggles and turmoil that awaits him or her. There are no shortcuts, back alleys, or back roads to success; only detours and winding roads can get you there. But, that’s what makes the fruit of our labor so sweet, is the story behind it all. If success were easy it wouldn’t be worth the gravel we walk upon because anybody could acquire it by simply sweeping the dust from his or her shoes.

What makes success so great is that the weak cannot obtain it. Only the strong and the persistent have the ability to reach success because one must have the endurance, strength, patience, and willingness to climb the same mountains over and over, and over again. Once success is obtain and we reached the end our lives, the story of hardship, pain, and sacrifice, will be the road map for the ones after us that are trying to make it and reach the end of their destination. Those who have fallen short will only be able to show you where they stopped at. So, I say to all, success is not a race to the end, but a test of endurance for those who want to have it. It can be obtained by anyone who wants it. I hope to see you at the end.
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